Crossword-Solution: DABSTERS
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| DABSTERS | anagram | BASTERDS |
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| Masters of their professions | 1 answer |
| Dilettantes | 4 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
A soft mineral of a soapy feel and a greenish, whitish, or
grayish color, usually occurring in foliated masses. It is hydrous
silicate of magnesia. Steatite, or soapstone, is a compact granular
variety.
Hint 2 anagram
LTAC
Hint 3 another clue
BABY DOCTOR FOR SHORT
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Sentences with DABSTERS (4)
Good players often do this so as to secure a position from which they can "skin the ring." _Dabsters_ are little squares of cloth or skin laid under the knuckles when playing to keep them from being cut by constant contact with the hard ground.
Apothecaries were permitted to sell drugs to "alchemists, bath-servants and ignorant quacks, while dabsters, calf-doctors, rag-pickers, magicians, witches, crystallomancers, sooth-sayers and other _mancipia_ [purchased slaves] of the Devil, were allowed to practice Medicine."[227:1] At this same period, we are told, the mass of the English people were extraordinarily credulous.
But it is the simple truth that, at all the things at which these fellows think they're dabsters, I'm as far ahead of them as they're ahead of you,--no offence intended.
Some are dabsters at shuttin, some at mowin, others at wrusslin, some amang t’ kye, er t’ yowes, er t’ meears.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT, WSJ.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1987–2022).